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[/quote] Your problem isn’t how another state schedules their spring breaks. Your problem is that when DCPS asked their stakeholders for input on their school calendar, enough respondents wanted spring break to coincide with Easter to match suburban MD school districts’ breaks that DCPS listened and made that change. Why are there enough residents of suburban MD teaching in DCPS to have this influence on the DCPS school calendar? Because DC is not an affordable place for teachers to live. [b]All of this boils down to significant number of DCPS stakeholders wanting something different from what you want. You have not made a compelling case for MD school districts to change anything to suit your personal preferences (not that DCUM posters have the ability to make that happen). [/quote]
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A. Most people on here want a consistent spring break that is at a good point in the year like after the 3rd marking period. 
[color=blue]How have you determined that? Who are “most of the people on here”? Most DCUM posters, regardless of where they live? Most posters on this (MCPS) board?[/color]
B. Those responses are INFLATED (a bunch of teachers go on over and over again and respond multiple times each). 
[color=blue]How do you know that?[/color]
C. Most of the DC people on this site probably didn't vote on the survey. 
[color=blue]Only people who filled out and submitted the survey got to have any say in the matter. None of the MD residents on this board participated in the survey.[/color]
D. Maryland school districts either schedule spring break over Easter or lack a real break (which is insane). Since Easter has a five week range when it can occur spring break should not be decided that way.
[color=blue]That’s your opinion, not a fact, and since you don’t live in MD, so your opinion has no relevance.[/color]

Ex. Other places always schedule their break at the same time of year (3rd week of March in many southern states, where school ends in May) In New England the schools schedule spring break based on Patriots' Day (third Monday of April) so it is always the 3rd full week of April there. Patriots Day has a one week range for when it can fall, not a five week range![/quote]
[color=blue]Other places have different priorities than we do when setting their calendars. They have earlier or later start dates than we do. They have an earlier end date than we do. They have less diverse demographics than we do and don’t need to close for Jewish holidays due to staffing issues, like we do. They have negotiated employment contracts that are different from ours. Their schools operate under different state mandates for holidays and minimum requirements for number of days and hours of instruction. School districts tailor their calendars to local needs, customs, mandates and budgets. That’s why they’re not the same everywhere.[/color][/quote]

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